Grooms v. State

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge:

From his conviction in Haskell County District Court, Case No. CRF-82-20, for Larceny of a Domestic Animal, wherein he was sentenced to three (3) years’ imprisonment, the appellant, Floyd A. Grooms, appeals.

Evidence at trial showed that on January 26, 1982, the appellant, and two companions, carrying a shotgun, an ax, and plastic trash bags, went onto Charles Ballard’s land, shot a cow, and proceeded to partially skin and hindquarter the animal. Before the task was complete, however, Ballard drove up and turned a flashlight on the three trespassers.…